Someone Else Notices That the Corps Is Rotten

Attention, all those commenters who've thought I was "nit-picking" or being "obsessive" in my focus on the culpability of the Army Corps of Engineers for the drowning of New Orleans: it's not just me. Here's a long piece in today's Washington Post by a reporter who has wondered, long before Katrina, why the Corps' environmental depradations and economic blunders don't get the attention they deserve, and who observes, in the wake of Katrina, that FEMA was the fall-guy agency, while the Corps blithely proceeds as usual, wasting money, despoiling the environment and endangering lives.

(NON MEDIA OBSERVATION FOLLOWS) One day, a smart politician in New Orleans (could happen!) will contact politicians in other areas victimized by the Corps and begin to build a national constituency to investigate the ACE and put an end to its way of doing business, at home and in Iraq. Until then, we are expected to pay up and shut up.